EA = Evil Alliance

Check this out: ESPN.com – SPORTSBUSINESS – Shutout: EA Sports corners NFL video market

Basically, EA faced some competition this year from NFL 2K5, so rather than making better games, they just bought up exclusive use of the NFL & NFL Player’s Association licenses for 5 years.

Goodbye competition. Now EA can rest on its laurels rather than striving to make a better game every year.

Shame on the NFL and NFLPA for contributing to the squelching of competition in the marketplace.

Plant your phone

This is kinda neat: Scientists make phone that turns into a sunflower

Basically, a company developed a biodegradable plastic, and they’ve proposed a cell phone cover that has a sunflower seed embedded in it. So you toss the cover away, it rots, and degrades into nitrates that fertilize the sunflower seed.

“I’m not comfortable with this,” says Isabella Starbard (not her real name), girl on the street. “I don’t want a sunflower growing in my ear!”

Nintendo DS

I just realized I never wrote a post here about the Nintendo DS. Well, I bought one (actually I bought 3, but the others are gifts) and so far I’ve been very impressed.

Rather than re-write what I’ve already said, let me just link you to an article I wrote for Computerworld. They called it a ‘review’ but really its more of a first look.

Regular readers of this blog know I’ve been a PSP fanboy of sorts; frankly I wasn’t expecting much from the DS, but I’ve been very surprised. Its a sweet little machine.